Why Your Next Keyboard Should Be Mechanical

Whether you're into coding, writing or gaming, a mechanical keyboard can make a huge improvement to your output. Boasting individual mechanical switches underneath each key, they provide a higher level of reliability, are more durable and can even help with RSI. Plus, they just look and sound so cool. This video breaks down all the reasons mechanical keyboard are worth your time.

The video below comes from our friends over at Kotaku. It explains why a good-quality keyboard is so important in the digital age while simultaneously showing off a dizzying array of mechanical models: some built, some bought. For more information about mechanical keyboards, check out our Lifehacker 101 guide.

Comments

Nope. Not as long as all everyone's making are the same straight keyboards. If I could get a mechanical version of the MS Natural Ergonomic I've been using for the last decade or so, then maybe I would, but until then, standard key keyboard for me. Not getting wrist injuries is preferable to having clicky keys.

Though it doesn't picture it with the extra attachment on the bottom to raise the front of the keyboard up. It has a very subtle curve to it where the center of the key area on each side is ever so slightly concave.

I've tried heaps of other keyboards, ergonomic and otherwise, and just keep coming back to this one.